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• To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
• As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of…
• Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
• I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
• I tend to like things that already exist.
• I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean.…
• In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know…
• Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from…
• Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
• I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of…
• Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and…
• One works without thinking how to work.

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